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Do you see that map, Maximus?
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That is the world which I created.
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For 25 years...
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I have conquered, spilt blood,
expanded the empire.
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Since I became Caesar,
I've known four years without war.
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Four years of peace in 20.
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And for what?
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[Sighs]
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I brought the sword. Nothing more.
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Caesar, your life...
:23:37
Please. Please don't call me that.
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Come. Please.
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Come sit.
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Let us talk together now...
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very simply, as men.
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Well, Maximus...
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talk.
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5,000 of my men are out there
in the freezing mud.
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3,000 of them are bloodied and cleaved.
2,000 will never leave this place.
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I will not believe that they fought
and died for nothing.
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CAESAR: And what would you believe?
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They fought for you and for Rome.
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And what is Rome, Maximus?
:24:17
I've seen much of the rest of the world.
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It is brutal and cruel and dark.
Rome is the light.
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Yet you have never been there.
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You have not seen what it has become.
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I am dying, Maximus.
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When a man sees his end...
:24:33
he wants to know there was some purpose
to his life.
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How will the world speak my name
in years to come?
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Will I be known as the philosopher?
:24:42
The warrior?
:24:44
The tyrant?
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Or will I be the Emperor
who gave Rome back her true self?
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CAESAR: There was once a dream
that was Rome.
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You could only whisper it.
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Anything more than a whisper
and it would vanish...